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The western part of the southern Australian continental margin is a huge shelf that extends some 2000 km from Cape Leeuwin (115° E) in the west to Coffin Bay (135° E) in the east (Figs. 8.1, 8.5). The shelf stretches from 33° to 35° S. It comprises two quite different sectors; the 800 km long relatively narrow Albany Shelf and the 1200 km long wide Great Australian Bight. The region is dominated by two massifs, the Yilgarn Craton in the west and the Gawler Craton in the east, with the Eucla Basin in between.
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James, N.P., Bone, Y. (2010). The Southwestern Shelf. In: Neritic Carbonate Sediments in a Temperate Realm. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9289-2_8
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